micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility
Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!
"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.
micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"
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The drawback is the slow charging speed.
Very specifically:
Ride an hour and a half towards a fast charger, sit around for an hour. Ride an hour and a half towards a fast charger, sit around for an hour.
Yeah, no.
Apparently the range is another drawback, especially combined with the charging time.
Good to take breaks when going long distances, it's a good opportunity for business to pop up also. Make it the journey. Not the destination. Maybe if the charging is able to be dropped to 30 mins would be a better time.
That's good in theory, but every hour across vast swaths of the US would be pretty boring. As it is most refuel stops are not places you wanna hangout at longer than you need to. That might shift slightly with more EVs requiring charges more often, but stopping every hour, for an hour to charge, isn't gonna fly for most folks.
It's easy to charge less than your entire battery. Don't run it empty and/or don't charge it full. The top part of the capacity is going to be slow to charge anyway.
But an hour's ride out charge sounds like a very small battery, so it's weird that the charge would take that long.
I'd much rather do three hundred miles (like four and a half hours), fuel and break for twenty minutes, hit the road again. #TourerLife